How to argue: reasons and evidence, sentence 12
Reasons about harm, fairness and rights are stronger reasons in ethics.
Who acts: Reasons · What happens: be · To what, where: stronger reasons, ethics
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: reasons and evidence» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reasons | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 harm | case |
| 3 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reasons | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fairness | punct |
| 5 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 harm | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rights | cc |
| 7 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Reasons | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reasons | cop |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 reasons | amod |
| 10 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ethics | case |
| 12 | ethics | ethic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reasons | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reasons | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Reasons about harm and fairness and rights | stronger reasons | ethics | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:12.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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